Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
TD approves pilot licence for autonomous vehicles in cross-district trial connecting Airport Island in North Lantau with Tung Chung Town Centre and Sunny Bay(2) increasing the number of AVs approved to operate simultaneously from 10 to 20 for the open road passenger-carrying trial on Airport Island, and from three to eight for the Tung Chung Town Centre trial; and
(3) during the Airport Island trial, in addition to having onboard backup operators, remote backup operators at the remote control centre will also operate the AVs, with a view to collecting more trial data prior to the orderly achievement of driverless operations, i.e. AVs with remote backup operators only in lieu of in-vehicle backup operators.Issued at HKT 17:15
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